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REVIEW: Joseph Gordon-Levitt Gives 50/50 a Fighting Chance

The world needs more cancer comedies. But it may not need more cancer comedies like 50/50 . It’s not that 50/50 is insensitive or dull or unfunny — it sidesteps all those potential flaws with the delicacy of the most precise surgeon. Then again, the picture’s delicacy may be misplaced: Directed by Jonathan Levine (who, in 2008, brought us The Wackness ) and written by Will Reiser, 50/50 never risks offending or shocking us as far as the cancer angle goes, but it does slot in some pretty ho-hum non-cancer-related crudeness wherever it can. When cancer-stricken Adam, played by Joseph Gordon-Levitt, shaves his head with electric clippers belonging to his best friend, Kyle (Seth Rogen), you don’t have to guess where those clippers have been — the movie tells you.

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REVIEW: Joseph Gordon-Levitt Gives 50/50 a Fighting Chance

A Few Things About the First Trailer — and First Rumors — for Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

This week’s edition of Oscar Index made the point of allowing for Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close as an awards contender on paper, while withholding any specific hype until we’d all seen at least a trailer. Hours later, that trailer arrived. But even more interesting than the footage therein? How about the test-screening gossip trickling out around Stephen Daldry’s magic-realist 9/11 tearjerker? [Warning: Spoilers ahead.]

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A Few Things About the First Trailer — and First Rumors — for Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

Scarborough On Tax Cut Deal: ‘George Bush Has Won’

Somewhere, George Bush is laughing . . . That was the image in Joe Scarborough's mind this morning.

Bahran 22 protests shake Iran – It’s time for Obama to take a stand